US-German Alliance Pre-WW1?

Is there a way to get the German Empire and the United States to form a military alliance with each other before World War 1? Or perhaps at least make relations between the two much better than OTL?
 
The easiest way is to have a US - British war where the US gets its ass handed to it. Maybe have the British decide to intervene on the Spanish side during the Spanish American War? Perhaps they decide for geopolitical reasons to block US expansion into the Pacific and Caribbean.
 
Probably not unless you want to massively and drastically alter U.S. history to the point where most of is unrecognizable.
 

Grimbald

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The Alabama Claims turn nasty

The US insists on Western Canada
The UK says no way
Shots are fired
Even if everyone makes nice quickly it will sour relations for another generation or two.
 
The easiest way is to have a US - British war where the US gets its ass handed to it. Maybe have the British decide to intervene on the Spanish side during the Spanish American War? Perhaps they decide for geopolitical reasons to block US expansion into the Pacific and Caribbean.

The US doesn't need to have their asses handed to them. Just an open war between Britain and America would likely do. Then again, say America befriends another continental adversary of the British like France (in the 19th century, fears about who the bad guy was for Britain shifted between France and Germany). So that may not be an assured.
 
Japan...

If both Germany and the USA get the idea that Japan wants such places as Tsingtao, Manila, and a few other tid-bits in the Pacific (a not unreasonable belief) the something just might happen. It would have to be very threatening from the American's point of view, given the US isolationism, but such a situation could get the ball rolling.

I can see Germany (under a competent foreign minister) reacting to a threat to America's Pacific territories by extending an offer of alliance. The terms would be very specific, comitting either of them to defend the other's Pacific posessions IF they were attacked--a strictly defensive and local deal. The USA gains security against Japanese snagging the Phillipines and similar territory, Germany gets the USA slightly brought into the alliance system.

Britan allies with Japan just after that--once again a defensive deal only.

Then--Japan gets the supply of 12" guns that it wants, allowing Satsuma to be the first all big gun battleship. Now things get hairy...
 
no oregon treaty and subsequent shooting.

afterwards the british keep a closer eye on american westward expansion, gives some help to the CSA if the civil war happens, which will sour relations more and offer mexico lots of help as soon as someone mentiones the words manifest destiny.

the only question is who gets hawaii? japan, france or great britain.
 
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